Montage: Lightning Strikes, Davis Mountains, 10/2007

There were a number of showers and thunderstorms during my October 2007 visit to the Davis Mountains. The montage above shows 9 of the best strikes I captured. Images are from the storm on 10/6/2007, about 1/2 hour after sunset. Some of the earlier images show the lingering twilight. Scroll down to see some of these as high resolution images.

The hardest thing about lightning pictures, aside from finding a good view of the lightning, is getting a sharp focus in the dark. Modern auto-focus lenses don't have a fixed infinity mark. I pre-focused on a distant hillside while it was still light, then was careful not to alter focus as I shot the storm over the course of an hour. I shot 97 exposures, with 7 shots showing decent to excellent lightning and 3 showing marginal lightning.

Multiple Lightning Strikes Over Tampa Bay Above: a very old shot from Tierra Verde, FL. This is, south of St. Pete, FL. The two images above were shot from our 3rd floor balcony of our condo, looking East over Tampa Bay. It's a long exposure on print film.

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